AN Illustrated History of the Communist Party of China-china.org.cn

A translation of Manifesto of the Communist Party was published in Shanghai.

Eighth Route Army soldiers celebrating victory on the Great Wall.

Mao Zedong went to Chongqing to talk with the Kuomintang government.

Private handicraftsmen turned to the socialist path by way of cooperatives.

Workers of the Daqing Oilfield at work.

A village-level organization signing a contract with peasants.

China attaches importance to expanding its contacts with Western capitalist countries. By 1973, China had established diplomatic relations with almost all these countries. France was the first major large Western country to establish formal diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China in the 1960s. Huang Zhen, China’s first ambassador to France, is shown here with French President De Gaulle after presenting his credentials on June 6, 1964.